Comments on: Before You Box Up the Past, Ask This One Question First https://lisanotes.com/before-you-box-up-the-past-ask-this-one-question-first/ on Life and Love Fri, 05 Sep 2025 18:20:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.9 By: Lisa Blair https://lisanotes.com/before-you-box-up-the-past-ask-this-one-question-first/#comment-337114 Fri, 05 Sep 2025 18:20:01 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=43353#comment-337114 Happy BlogaversaryLisa! Seventeen years of blogging is amazing! What a beautiful heart towards your mother’s letters, “I want her ripples to forever touch and change my life.”

]]> By: Paula https://lisanotes.com/before-you-box-up-the-past-ask-this-one-question-first/#comment-337111 Fri, 05 Sep 2025 14:19:35 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=43353#comment-337111 Happy Blogaversary! Oh wow I have no words Lisa. This is so touching you’ve made me speechless. Beautiful just Beautiful!
I appreciate you sharing this with Sweet Tea & Friends this month sweet friend. I’m so happy you’re here.
{{Hugs}}

]]> By: Maree Dee https://lisanotes.com/before-you-box-up-the-past-ask-this-one-question-first/#comment-337105 Thu, 04 Sep 2025 01:52:12 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=43353#comment-337105 In reply to Maree Dee.

I mean, on Friday.

]]> By: Maree Dee https://lisanotes.com/before-you-box-up-the-past-ask-this-one-question-first/#comment-337104 Thu, 04 Sep 2025 01:51:29 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=43353#comment-337104 Oh, Lisa, what a beautiful post. I love that you’re getting to know your momma even more and yourself.

I do shudder at the thought of someone reading my journals and how they might hurt as I express my feelings. I’m going to have to think on that one.

Your post received the most clicks in August for our Grace & Truth Link-Up, and I will be highlighting it tomorrow on my blog.

Blessings to you, my friend,

Maree

]]> By: LisaNotes https://lisanotes.com/before-you-box-up-the-past-ask-this-one-question-first/#comment-337066 Thu, 21 Aug 2025 16:37:03 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=43353#comment-337066 In reply to Pam.

Well, if you do decide to read your mom’s journals, I hope it will be an enjoyable experience, Pam. I read more just this morning from my mom’s writings. I both laugh and cry as I read. Today I read that she was worried before my birth that she would go into labor and have to deliver me in a bomb shelter (it was during the Cuban missile crisis era). That didn’t happen tho. ha. Thanks for featuring my post at the linkup!

]]> By: Pam https://lisanotes.com/before-you-box-up-the-past-ask-this-one-question-first/#comment-337064 Thu, 21 Aug 2025 11:46:52 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=43353#comment-337064 This is such a beautiful post, Lisa. It resonated with me so much. My mom passed in 2002, and I’ve been a little afraid to read her journals, so I’ve never read them. She wrote a lot of them, and I know they must have been helpful to her. You’ve given me courage to think about reading them. (Hopefully, anyway!) I’ll be featuring this post at Thursday Favorite Things today. 🙂

]]> By: LisaNotes https://lisanotes.com/before-you-box-up-the-past-ask-this-one-question-first/#comment-337063 Wed, 20 Aug 2025 21:33:57 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=43353#comment-337063 In reply to Esme Slabbert.

I appreciate you featuring my post at the SSPS linkup, Esme!

]]> By: Esme Slabbert https://lisanotes.com/before-you-box-up-the-past-ask-this-one-question-first/#comment-337059 Sun, 17 Aug 2025 22:47:55 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=43353#comment-337059 Dear Lisa
I have now read this more than once, and I feel what you and your mom wrote in so many ways. Congratulations, your post will be featured this Monday at SSPS 374. Thanks for sharing.

]]> By: LisaNotes https://lisanotes.com/before-you-box-up-the-past-ask-this-one-question-first/#comment-337058 Sat, 16 Aug 2025 20:31:36 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=43353#comment-337058 In reply to Cat.

Courage is a good word to use here, Cat. Although I trust my mother’s good intentions and sweet spirit in her writings, it still takes some courage to open up her journals, not knowing what I’ll discover. I read some again yesterday and found them to be such a delight to “hear” her again, even in her moments of frustration.

]]> By: LisaNotes https://lisanotes.com/before-you-box-up-the-past-ask-this-one-question-first/#comment-337057 Sat, 16 Aug 2025 20:28:13 +0000 https://lisanotes.com/?p=43353#comment-337057 In reply to Steph@Crazylittlelovebirds.

Thank you for featuring my post at the linkup, Steph. I appreciate how dependable you are with it!

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